Brian Freeman, Author . St. Martin's/Minotaur $22.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-312-34042-1
A Harlan Coban–esque murder/psychological suspense structure and some uninspired writing ("He saw urgency written in her face") add up to a mildly interesting but unsurprising thriller for first-timer Freeman. Called to investigate the
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Brian Freeman, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-312-34044-5
At the start of Freeman's solid second thriller (after 2005's Immoral
), detective Jonathan Stride has left his job in Duluth, Minn., for Las Vegas, Nev. The action begins with a flashback to Sin City in the 1950s and the murder of a famous...
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Brian Freeman, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-312-36327-7
In Freeman's chilling, atmospheric latest, Jonathan Stride returns from a Las Vegas stint (in Stripped
) to head the major crimes detective bureau of his former Duluth, Minn., department. When the husband of Maggie Bei, Stride's former detective...
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Brian Freeman, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-312-36329-1
Edgar-finalist Freeman's fourth thriller to feature Duluth, Minn., police lieutenant Jonathan Stride (after Stalked
) may be his most ambitious—and accomplished—work to date. As the title suggests, even those involved in the closest
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Brian Freeman, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (340p) ISBN 978-0-312-56274-8
Though Jonathan Stride is still recovering from injuries he suffered in a high fall at the start of Freeman’s intriguing if overly plotted fourth thriller featuring the Duluth, Minn., police detective (after In the Dark
), he’s soon...
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Brian Freeman, Minotaur, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-56283-0
At the start of this solid stand-alone from Freeman (Immoral and three other titles in his Duluth, Minn., crime series), former high school teacher Mark Bradley is on vacation in Florida with his wife, Hilary. The previous year, accusations of an...
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Brian Freeman. Sterling/Silver Oak, $24.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-4027-9812-2
Two small Minnesota towns, St. Croix and Barron, are divided by a river, literally and figuratively, that turns them into warring camps in this harrowing, melodramatic stand-alone from Freeman (The Bone House). Barron, the home of Florian Steele’s...
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Brian Freeman. Quercus, $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-62365-131-2
At the start of Thriller Award–winner Freeman’s masterfully plotted sixth novel featuring Duluth, Minn., police detective Jonathan Stride (after 2010’s The Burying Place), a half-frozen 16-year-old hooker turns up in Stride’s cottage on Lake...
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Brian Freeman. Quercus, $26.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-62365-407-8
In the prologue of this fast-paced first in a new crime series from Edgar-finalist Freeman (The Cold Nowhere), an assassin fatally shoots Birch Fairmont, a congressional candidate from the newly formed Common Way Party, and two others at a political
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Brian Freeman. Quercus, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-62365-911-0
The recovery of a gun used to kill a young woman outside a seedy Duluth, Minn., bar propels Freeman’s deftly plotted seventh Jonathan Stride novel (after 2014’s The Cold Nowhere). Nine years earlier, Dr. Janine Snow, a highly respected heart...
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Brian Freeman. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (362p) ISBN 978-1-5039-4356-8
San Francisco homicide detective Frost Easton, the hero of this taut crime novel from Thriller Award–winner Freeman (Spilled Blood), looks into the death of Brynn Lansing, a salesperson at Macy’s. One night, while stuck in traffic on the Bay Bridge,
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Brian Freeman. Quercus, $26.99 (408p) ISBN 978-1-68144-241-9
Thriller Award–winner Freeman uses the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing as a template for his gripping eighth Jonathan Stride novel (after 2016’s Goodbye to the Dead), putting his own spin on why and how such an egregious crime has been committed. A...
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Brian Freeman. Quercus, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-68144-129-0
Thriller Award–winner Freeman’s excellent ninth Jonathan Stride novel (after 2017’s Marathon) finds the Duluth, Minn., police lieutenant revisiting difficult memories when a movie based on a serial killer case that left Stride emotionally scarred...
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Brian Freeman, Author, Joe Barrett, Read by , read by Joe Barrett. Blackstone Audiobooks $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-7778-3
Barrett has his work cut out for him on this audiobook. The novel, spanning several years during which Duluth Police Lt. Jonathan Stride investigates the disappearance and probable murder of a promiscuous teenage girl, has an extraordinarily large...
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Brian Freeman, read by Joe Barrett. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4417-8045-4
Past crimes, hidden secrets, mysterious murders, unknown villains, a plucky heroine, an innocent man condemned by circumstance, and a likable, witty, eccentric detective—all the ingredients for a propulsive page-turner are present in Freeman's new...
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Brian Freeman. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (350p) ISBN 978-1-5420-9336-1
Thriller writer Lisa Power, the heroine of this strong standalone from Thriller Award–winner Freeman (the Jonathan Stride series), hits the jackpot with her latest book, Thief River Falls, the success of which allows her to move to a house near her...
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Brian Freeman. Putnam, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-54259-9
This assured contribution to the Jason Bourne franchise from Thriller Award–winner Freeman (Thief River Falls) opens with a 2019 newspaper account of a sniper shooting in Las Vegas, Nev., that killed dozens a year earlier, but it’s the 2020...
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Brian Freeman. Blackstone, $27.99 (300p) ISBN 978-1-9826-6372-8
In Thriller Award winner Freeman’s deftly plotted 10th Jonathan Stride novel (after 2018’s Alter Ego), the Duluth, Minn., police lieutenant’s best friend, Steve Garske, admits to Stride on his deathbed to burying a body to protect Stride. Stride...
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Brian Freeman. Blackstone, $16.99 trade paper (354p) ISBN 978-1-0940-7132-9
The first part of this enthralling standalone from Thriller Award-winner Freeman (the Jonathan Stride series) focuses on the disappearance of 10-year-old Jeremiah Sloan, whose abandoned bike is found one day on a remote road in Mittel County, of...
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Brian Freeman. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (370p) ISBN 978-1-5420-2386-3
Chicago events manager Dylan Moran, the protagonist of this imaginative psychological thriller from Thriller Award winner Freeman (Thief River Falls), is haunted by the recent death of his wife, who drowned when he accidentally drove their car into...
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Brian Freeman. Putnam, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-54265-0
Thriller Award winner Freeman’s worthy sequel to 2020’s The Bourne Evolution finds Bourne, “the man with no memory and no past,” and love interest Nova, his partner in the Treadstone spy organization, in Tallinn, Estonia, on a doomed mission to...
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Brian Freeman. Putnam, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-41985-4
Thriller Award winner Freeman’s assured third contribution to the Bourne franchise (after 2021’s The Bourne Treachery) finds Jason Bourne on the trail of Vladimir Putin’s favorite assassin, the man known as Lennon. Besides wanting to take down the...
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Brian Freeman. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5420-3508-8
Gifted freelance writer Hallie Evers, the narrator of this intriguing thriller from bestseller Freeman (Infinite), has the mother of all bad days. Her sarcastic response to an ill-considered ad slogan for a prosthetic implant to treat impotence has...
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Brian Freeman. Blackstone, $26.99 (378p) ISBN 978-1-094082-34-9
Thriller Award winner Freeman’s strong 11th Jonathan Stride novel (after 2020’s Funeral for a Friend) finds the Duluth, Minn., cop, who once headed major crimes before he almost died from a gunshot wound, returning to work after more than a year of...
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Brian Freeman. Putnam, $29 (384p) ISBN 978-0-5934-1988-5
In Freeman’s breakneck fourth Jason Bourne thriller (after 2022’s The Bourne Sacrifice)—the 18th overall—the Treadstone secret agent remains locked in combat against his nemesis, Russian mole Lennon. Bourne’s former lover, Nova, is sent by Bourne’s...
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Brian Freeman. Blackstone, $27.99 (398p) ISBN 978-1-6651-0970-3
A former Army Ranger scrambles to locate his missing wife and daughter in this forgettable standalone from Freeman (the Jonathan Stride series). Tommy Miller has been living under an alias to obscure his complicated past as a soldier and member of...
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Brian Freeman. Putnam, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-71645-8
The rousing fifth entry in Freeman’s reboot of the Jason Bourne series (after The Bourne Defiance) revisits the amnesiac hero’s first assignment for black ops agency Treadstone. Ten years ago, David Webb was working as a teacher in Zurich when he...
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Brian Freeman. Putnam, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-71648-9
Freeman’s limp sixth Jason Bourne adventure (after The Bourne Shadow) is more soap opera than spy thriller. Everyone in the global intelligence community is after “the Files,” a database of hacked information teeming with secrets ripe for blackmail.
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